Mitotic spindle

Spindle apparatus

Array of microtubules and associated molecules that forms between opposite poles of a eukaryotic cell during mitosis or meiosis and serves to move the duplicated chromosomes apart

Metaphase

Cell cycle phase, following prophase or prometaphase in higher eukaryotes, during which chromosomes become aligned on the equatorial plate of the cell

Prophase

Cell cycle phase which is the first stage of M phase of meiosis and mitosis, during which chromosomes condense and the two daughter centrioles migrate toward the poles of the cell

Telophase

Cell cycle phase during which the chromosomes arrive at the poles of the cell and the division of the cytoplasm starts

Microtubule organizing center

Intracellular structure that can catalyze gamma-tubulin-dependent microtubule nucleation and anchor microtubules

Cytoskeleton

Any of the various filamentous elements that form the internal framework of cells